--- title: "Salima Mdhaffar — author profile and papers" description: "Salima Mdhaffar, Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 8 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salima-mdhaffar/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salima-mdhaffar/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Salima Mdhaffar # Salima Mdhaffar 3 papers on this site · 2025–2026 current affiliation [Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-d-avignon-et-des-pays-de-vaucluse/), Avignon, France; [Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-informatique-d-avignon/), Avignon, France; [Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’Université du Mans](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-d-informatique-de-l-universite-du-mans/), Le Mans, France Salima Mdhaffar has 3 papers on this site, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Fethi Bougares](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fethi-bougares/), [Haroun Elleuch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haroun-elleuch/), [Yannick Esteve](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yannick-esteve/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5056172842) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8472-6890) · [**h-index 8**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5056172842) · [81 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5056172842) · [375 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5056172842&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [3 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salima-mdhaffar/#papers) · [66 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salima-mdhaffar/cited-by/) · 11 more works in our library The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Salima+Mdhaffar) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Salima+Mdhaffar) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Salima+Mdhaffar) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Salima+Mdhaffar) ## Affiliations - [Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-informatique-d-avignon/) · Avignon, France —current · 2020–2026 on 45 papers - [Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-d-avignon-et-des-pays-de-vaucluse/) · Avignon, France —current · 2021–2026 on 18 papers - [Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’Université du Mans](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-d-informatique-de-l-universite-du-mans/) · Le Mans, France —current · 2017–2026 on 11 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Semitic languages 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elleuch-2026-ara-best-rq-multi-dialectal/) · [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salima-mdhaffar/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[ADI-20: Arabic Dialect Identification dataset and models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elleuch-2025-adi-20-arabic-dialect-identification/)** *(2025 · 13 citations)* Recognising which Arabic dialect a speaker uses is difficult. The varieties differ in sound, vocabulary and grammar, and speakers often switch between dialects, Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and foreign languages. The earlier ADI-17 corpus had two problems: some dialects had far more data than others, and MSA… 2. **[Towards a Unified Benchmark for Arabic Pronunciation Assessment: Quranic Recitation as Case Study](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kheir-2025-towards-unified-benchmark-arabic-pronunciation/)** *(2025 · 13 citations)* Arabic pronunciation training lacks shared, open evaluation resources. Mispronunciation detection for Modern Standard Arabic has had no common test set, and labelled error speech is scarce. The authors build an end-to-end benchmark around Qur'anic verses read in MSA style, without Tajweed. The pipeline has four parts: 3. **[Ara-Best-RQ: Multi Dialectal Arabic SSL](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elleuch-2026-ara-best-rq-multi-dialectal/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Arabic speech is thinly covered by self-supervised speech models. Multilingual encoders are dominated by English and other high-resource languages, and the Arabic they do contain is mostly Modern Standard Arabic. Dialects, which differ strongly in sound and vocabulary, get little attention, and no large open… ## Also in our library 11 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Fethi Bougares](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fethi-bougares/) ×2 - [Haroun Elleuch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haroun-elleuch/) ×2 - [Yannick Esteve](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yannick-esteve/) ×2 - [Amit Meghanani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amit-meghanani/) - [Hawau Olamide Toyin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hawau-olamide-toyin/) - [Nada Almarwani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nada-almarwani/) - [Omnia Ibrahim](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omnia-ibrahim/) - [Thomas Hain](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-hain/) - [Yassine El Kheir](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yassine-el-kheir/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 66 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [6 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salima-mdhaffar/cited-by/).